The working group investigates how media in pluralistic societies create trust and mediate conflict and reflect these processes at the same time. Taking into account the increasing pervasiveness of digital media, the working group studies the operational and aesthetic aspects of mass media (press, TV), film and literature, telecommunications, and social media, as well as functional media in law, economics, governance and politics and their formal and informal uses. The methodological approach of the group goes beyond content-, text-, and technology-centered analyses and takes aesthetic, legal and economic factors into account.
Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger

Co-Speaker and Principal Investigator
Contact
Phone: +49 (0) 69 798 32077
Postal address
Goethe-University Frankfurt
IG-Farben-Building
Room 6.353
Norbert-Wolheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt
Publications on the research topic
From Miasma Theory to Digital Ghost Town: Tales of Infrastructure and Social Politics in the 21st Century Megalopolis. In: Saswat Das, Ananja Roy Pratihar (Hg.): Technology, Urban Space, and the Networked Community. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 217-242.
Sichtbares Unrecht. Zur normativen Kraft des Dokumentarischen. In Rainer Forst, Klaus Günther (Hg.): Theorie normativer Ordnungen. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2021, 478-501.
How to Fight a Pandemic with Status Elevation. The Home Shopping Governance of Donald J. Trump. In: Philipp Dominik Keidl, Laliv Melamed, Vinzenz Hediger, Antonio Somaini (Hg.): Pandemic Media. Preliminary Notes Towards and Inventory. Lüneburg: meson press 2020, chapter 35 https://pandemicmedia.meson.press/chapters/activism-sociability/how-to-fight-a-pandemic-with-status-elevation-the-home-shopping-governance-of-donald-j-trump/
Can We Leave the Cave and Have It Too? On the Meaning of Cinema as Technology. In: Hidalgo, Santiago (Hg.): Technology and Film Scholarship. Experience, Study, Theory. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2018, 213-238.
Epistemology of the Checkpoint. Gillo Pontecorvo’s Battaglia di Algeri and the Doctrine of Counterinsurgency. In: Lee Grieveson, Haidee Wasson (Hg.): Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex. Berkeley: University of California Press 2018, 157-176.
PD. Dr. Florian Hoof

Postdoc
Contact
Phone: +49 (0)69 798-31511
Publikationen im Forschungszusammenhang
Hoof, Florian 2022: Das Problem der Generationen in der Computergeschichte. In: Wichum, R., Zetti, D. (eds.) Zur Geschichte des digitalen Zeitalters. Geschichte des digitalen Zeitalters. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 31-51, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-34506-8_3.
Hoof, Florian 2020: Angels of Efficiency. A Media History of Consulting. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hoof, Florian 2020: Media of Trust: Visualizing the Pandemic, in: L. Melamed, P. D. Keidl, V. Hediger, A. Somaini (eds.) Pandemic Media. Preliminary Notes Towards an Inventory, Lüneburg: Meson Press, 231-240.
Hoof, Florian, Sebastian K. Boell 2019: Culture, Technology, and Process in ‘Media Theories’: Toward a Shift in the Understanding of Media in Organizational Research, in: Organization, Vol. 26, Nr. 5, 636–654, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508419855702.
Hoof, Florian 2015: Live Sports, Piracy and Uncertainty: Understanding Illegal Streaming Aggregation Platforms, in: R. Lobato, J. Meese (eds.) Geoblocking and Global Video Culture, 86-93.
PD Dr. Pavan Kumar Malreddy

Principal Investigator
Contact
Website
Phone: +49 (0) 69 798 32356
Postal address
Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
Faculty of Modern Philologies
Institute of English and American Studies
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Publications on the research topic
2022 ‘Im Konflikt verbunden: Der Staat, die Straße und das organisierte Misstrauen/Bound by Conflict: The State, the Street and Organized Distrust in India’s Communal Violence’. Special Issue ‘Vergemeinschaftung durch Misstrauen? (ed. Greta Wagner) WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 2 (22): 97-105.
2022 ‘Postsecular Longings? Religious Dissent, Faith, and Gurus in Indian Cinema’. Third Text 35 (5), https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2022.2049159.
2021 ‘The Syntax of Everyday Injustice: A Conversation with Arundhati Roy’. Special issue ‘Crisis and Recovery’. Wasafiri 107, 41-49.
2020 (co-edited with Michael C. Frank) Narratives of the War on Terror: Global Perspectives. Oxon and New York: Routlegde.
2020 (with Anindya S. Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann) ‘Discoursing Populism: Types, Typologies and Contexts’. Special Issue of Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 5 (2): 1-8S.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Peukert

Principal Investigator
Contact
Website
Phone: +49 69 798 31477
Postal address
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Chair Prof. Peukert
ExNO PF-012
Campus Westend
60629 Frankfurt am Main
Publications on the research topic
Kettemann, Matthias C., Alexander Peukert, Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann 2022: The Law of Global Digitality, Routledge: London.
Peukert, Alexander 2022: Das Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz: Entwicklung, Auswirkungen, Zukunft, Erscheint in: Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann/Ricardo Campos/Michael Westland (Hrsg.), Demokratie und Öffentlichkeit im 21. Jahrhundert – zur Macht des Digitalen, Arbeitspapier des Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Nr. 2/2022.
Peukert Alexander 2021: Five Reasons to be Skeptical About the DSA, in: Heiko Richter/Marlene Straub/Erik Tuchtfeld (eds), To Break Up or Regulate Big Tech? Avenues to Constrain Private Power in the DSA/DMA Package, 2021, pp. 22-28.
Peukert Alexander 2020: Faktenchecks auf Facebook aus lauterkeitsrechtlicher Sicht, WRP 2020, 391-398.
Peukert Alexander 2018: Gewährleistung der Meinungs- und Informationsfreiheit in sozialen Netzwerken. Vorschlag für eine Ergänzung des NetzDG um sog. Put-back-Verfahren, MMR 2018, 572-578.
Peukert Alexander 2018: Urheberrecht und verwandte Schutzrechte, Juristische Kurz-Lehrbücher, C.H. Beck München, 18. Aufl. 2018, 425 S. (gemeinsam mit M. Rehbinder).
Prof. Dr. Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann, LL.M

Principal Investigator
Prof. Spiecker publishes in the entire field of public law with a special focus on information and technology law. Her research integrates insights from (behavioral) law and economics, the technical sciences, and legal theory. Her expertise is valued nationally and internationally; she is an expert witness for the legislature, for the administration including the federal government, NGOs and the business community on all questions of regulatory coping with digitization, but also in environmental law, cybersecurity, health law and technology regulation.
Contact
Phone: +49 (0) 69 798 34267
Postal address
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann, LL.M
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 4 / RuW 05
60629 Frankfurt am Main
Publications on the research topic
Akzeptanz von Verwaltungsentscheidungen, in: W. Kahl/U. Mager (Hrsg.), Verwaltungs-aufgaben und Legitimation der Verwaltung, Baden-Baden 2022, S. 261-300.
Staatliche Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit, ca. 500 S., i.E. Tübingen 2022.
Digitalisierung und Demokratie. Stellungnahme der Leopoldina: Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften und Union der deutschen Akedemien der Wissenschaften, Halle (Saale) 2021, 74 S. (zus. mit R. Anderl, E. André, M. Bäcker, A. Breiter, J. Buchmann, T. Dienlin, Th. Faas, A. Hepp, R. Hertwig, L. Herzog, J. Hoffmann, F. Kreuter, J. Lamla, Th. Lengauer, M. Löw, B. Pfetsch, J. Simon und M. Zürn).
Profiling, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence und Social Media – Gefahren für eine Gesell-schaft ohne effektiven Datenschutz, in: W. Hötzendorfer/Chr. Tschohl/F. Kummer (Hrsg.), International Trends in Legal Informatics, Festschrift für Erich Schweighofer, Bern 2020, S. 345-372.
Prof. Dr. Johannes Völz

Contact
Website
Phone: +49 (0) 69 79832364
Postal address
Regine v. Puttkamer
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
Room 4.212
60629 Frankfurt am Main
Publications on the research topic
Voelz, Johannes. The Poetics of Insecurity: American Fiction and the Uses of Threat. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
“Populism and the Politics of Distrust.” The People: Belonging, Exclusion, and Democracy. Hg. Benjamin Kohlmann und Matthew Taunton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2022 (forthcoming)
Voelz, Johannes. “Toward an Aesthetics of Populism, Part I: The Populist Space of Appearance.” Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (REAL) 34 (2018): 203–228.
Voelz, Johannes (with Tom Freischläger). “Toward an Aesthetics of Populism, Part II: The Aesthetics of Polarization.” Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (REAL) 35 (2019). 261–286.
“Reading Populism with Bourdieu and Elias.” Reading the Social in American Studies. Hg. Astrid Franke, Stefanie Müller, Katja Sarkowsky. New York: Palgrave, 2022. 233-258.